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Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
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Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
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It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
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It is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
St. John of the Cross
Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591) -
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
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It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
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It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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